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people tell us we read some of the same blogs. i suspect, justice breyer's tweeting experience is vastly exaggerated, from what i understand. and i think -- >> i think he said all he did right?ad, >> he didn't affirmatively tweet. >> that's right. that's right. , who would be the justices to regularly tweet and would be sonya sotomayor. not for a long time. justices have a way of doing hings that they are very reluctant to change. to explain in a written long explanation of why we voted the way we did. arguments are in public. people file their briefs in public. so they think they're very open. >> bear in mind also that each ave four brainiac 25-year-old clerks and those folks, i'm can monitors social media and brings stuff to their bosses. whether or not it affects them, it's a couple of decades behind the technology. decided a major pager case. >> and i personally think that a scalia tweet would be in all caps. >> question. yeah. there's one in the back i'm seeing a hand. you stand up. >> as journalists and educators. 'm wonderi
people tell us we read some of the same blogs. i suspect, justice breyer's tweeting experience is vastly exaggerated, from what i understand. and i think -- >> i think he said all he did right?ad, >> he didn't affirmatively tweet. >> that's right. that's right. , who would be the justices to regularly tweet and would be sonya sotomayor. not for a long time. justices have a way of doing hings that they are very reluctant to change. to explain in a written long explanation of...
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, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them so people whose houses happened to be flown over the privacy that is dated but we're focused on that surveillance, watching everybody all the time. we think drones have technology that has a lot of potential to do good and really it is in everybody's interest to pin down the privacy question, put in place common sense protection and we don't have to worry about privacy, that will free public safety agencies to use these technologies without the clout of big brother hanging over us. >> did you have something to say on that topic? >> this year, boston police department use an online system over th
, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them...
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for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around the country we are around in the country. it seems to me -- the most important thing for me, was that somebody actively encourages someone to take that step. there have been studies done about corporate involvement with women, all these other sectors, and what they always say is with women, despite all the things being equal -- they are qualified, intelligent, capable, accomplished just as much as their male counterparts, we tend to question our qualifications, the timing, all of these things, and not run for that promotion, not ask for the salary raise. i think there is an intersection with politics there,
for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around...
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placebos can't be used as frequently as they used to be used in the past. informed concept, of course, is something altogether different. that's when you don't tell someone they're in a study, or you don't tell them all the information. youyou should tell them about te study. or you don't share all the risks of the study and other information. and that is a, like i said, the serious problem here because it's not that that many people are affected so far, but we're not talking about a small number of people. the study that tested artificial blood only involved 720 people in the u.s. and canada. 720 people is not a lot of people. but at the end what did they find? they found be what they were testing caused more heart attacks and deaths than the regular standard of care. so you had people dying in the study who never knew that they were part of medical research, who never knew that they were in the study. and even worse, the very year the study ended a new study was started. the research outcomes consortium study which involved 21,000 people in the u.s. and c
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we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw this partly in iraq. the inability for us to negotiate in any sort of military service for the long term would have ambushed with a lot of intelligence. in the region we would have had naval support as well. we gave it up to iran as part of the deal. >> help us out a bit. would you like to add to what she is already given us? >> great points. they're looking to do things differently. there's only so far this can possibly go. i will look at why the cuts that she alluded to would be too extreme. last spring a sequestration was about to hit. they decided not to send a second car
we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw...
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some of us will be in new orleans for her service tomorrow, all of us, and -- all of us send our mourning and prayers to their family, i hope it's a comfort to them that so %any people loved lindy boggs . [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] this will all impact your question, and the answer to your question. >> admiral, do you want to add anything? >> so i would say, david, that, first of all, the options as presented, you know, it's not all capability or all apacity. somewhere, if we have to go that way, full bca cuts, it's going to be something in the middle, and we know that. the real question is if either of those scenarios gets us into what was described as break. so what is break? break is not you can't do anything in the strategy. it means there are certain things that are in this strategy that we're going to have a really hard time doing, may not be able to do, or we'll have to do it at extremely high risk. and because what we were doing here is teeing up choices, we haven't made those choices yet. we now
some of us will be in new orleans for her service tomorrow, all of us, and -- all of us send our mourning and prayers to their family, i hope it's a comfort to them that so %any people loved lindy boggs . [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] this will all impact your question, and the answer to your question. >> admiral, do you want to add anything? >> so i would say, david, that, first of all, the options...
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let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said, i all of a sudden lost my job. i was thrown in jail. i was questioned for 24 hours by fbi agents. i have no reason why this came up. i think it is because i came up mistakenly in this search, and i want to know about it. i think, in this great country of ours, with great reporters like you, us would have come out. >> there are a lot of people who lose a lot of jobs or are on the no-fly list, and all kinds of other things. if someone tells me as a reporter, i just know it is because i have been surveilled by a secret program
let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said,...
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nobody had used that term. it was a little bit of insight that whatever happened in the mind is registered in the brain. you can't have a mental event without a brain representation. our could you? after the brain is what made the event. the brain representation is in the form of electrochemical event. there's nothing that happens in the brain that is not registered in the body. these chemicals, neuro peptides. the education centuries presentation i have a gut feeling made sense. it was molecule of emotion. he would tell you the gut makes the same chemical the brain does. this is a scientific background. the body of information. and the information is -- [inaudible] it's from consciousness. any physician will tell you you have two patients who get the same treatment who see the same doctor, have the same ill p -- illness and different outcome. the prognosis wouldn't be called proking in sis is -- [inaudible] people on this side and people on this side. and you can accurately make a diagnose is. you can never ac
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thank you for joining us. guest: people look at the bill and so the democrats voted in favor of the senate immigration bill. we may not see the same results in the house just because there are some democrats who come from conservative leaning districts in may the has a tent with certain aspects of immigration. some members who belong to coalitions like the blue dog coalition, and new democrats, some have reservations about what to do with the 11 million people who are illegal immigrants living in the united states. that is the most controversial aspect of what the house is going to do. they have concerns that reflect a lot of the same concerns the more moderate rubble consent. host: whatever piece of legislation set,, speaker boehner is going to need every democrat he can to pass it. >> and these democrats maybe more willing to vote with what a centrist will be. it is hard to tell at this point. we do not know what the contours will be of a house bill dealing with legalization. some democrats are wanting to st
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they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has this kind of psychosis, this anxiety about its relationship with america, its mission to put in the of. so many different ways have been tried. .. here is what i don't think we should do. i think we have engaged with pakistan and its best mudlick way so what happens is 1971 we have a relationship earlier during the cold war because pakistan's geography and the fact that they were essentially on our side made them very good partners there. when we wanted wet henry kissinger wanted to go into china they were useful to help him get into china secretly
they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has...
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tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy is politically induced. [applause] >> so, the question is what is the role of secrecy and diplomacy? and extended from that, what are your feelings about mr. snowden and the relations between the united states and russia now that he has been granted -- >> i thought it was a friendly audience? [laughter] i know that, look, i will give you what i think. i may be wrong about all of this. i think there's a real tension, and always has been, but particularly in a globalized, highly integrated internet society of the type we have now. there's a tension between s
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and as you can tell from the four of us sitting here, we have more years behind us than in front of us, and as we look at you, you have more years in front of you than behind you. and we need you to pick up the mantle and do what needs to be done to make it better for those coming behind you, as well as for yourselves. [applause] >> two questions. we have time for one or two questions. any students that want to pose a question to the panel? do not miss your opportunity to glean knowledge from these people. any students with questions for the panel? any students with questions for the panel? do not miss your opportunity. we will do this oprah style. bring it right here. there you go. >> thank you. did you ever feel like you were scared, like, were you scared when you decided to protest integration? what drove you to keep it going, and who is your motivation to keep going? and even though you could get hurt and all that other dangerous stuff -- >> great question. great question. >> we sensed if you ain't scared, you do not know what is going on. because there is something certainly that
and as you can tell from the four of us sitting here, we have more years behind us than in front of us, and as we look at you, you have more years in front of you than behind you. and we need you to pick up the mantle and do what needs to be done to make it better for those coming behind you, as well as for yourselves. [applause] >> two questions. we have time for one or two questions. any students that want to pose a question to the panel? do not miss your opportunity to glean knowledge...
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ohio, wisconsin, all of us, that was the common thing that, that's bound us together. -- that bound us together. as i look and see so many signs about trayvon martin, i say, how you are going to get personr with the next carrying the sign and say, what can we do together to help the cause and move us forward? got created.ncc reactionut of a common to injustice and lack of freedom in our society. we have seen, with ernie and carlotta and the nine people who suck together and have done we watchedack then, that struggle. that this is -- emother -- mami till brought that back to chicago and had the foresight to put that ensure -- picture on the cover. of emmett picture till's body. it appeared on jet and i found camehat everyone else who and became my comrades were moved by the same thing. all of us came from different parts of the country in different worlds and that particular murder struck us because this was somebody our age. just as trayvon martin is somebody your age. realize that speaking about and carrying signs will not do anything. it has to be something. ok, we have a point that
ohio, wisconsin, all of us, that was the common thing that, that's bound us together. -- that bound us together. as i look and see so many signs about trayvon martin, i say, how you are going to get personr with the next carrying the sign and say, what can we do together to help the cause and move us forward? got created.ncc reactionut of a common to injustice and lack of freedom in our society. we have seen, with ernie and carlotta and the nine people who suck together and have done we...
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now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or, you know, these southeast asians. they are different. they are taking our jobs this time. that's when i'm going to hear, i think, in the future not only from my kids if i have done a poor job educating them but also people in society. >> it's fascinating and encouraging discussion. i hope our friends on capitol hill pay attention to the points made today and read out of the book on sale here at the discount for all of you interested. thank you all for coming. please, join me in thanking our great speakers today. [applause] >> a luncheon following upstairs. sanjiv.me to years befo a
now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or,...
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that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it comes to higher education finance. our debt financing is especially a problem if what is being financed is consumption, not investment. if as it has been suggested for a large number of students college is not an investment but consumption, four fun filled years before they have to settle down to a adult life. these and many more interesting and challenging problems of college education, college invocation, runaway college costs and the debt explosion financing them are discussed in this insightful and practical book. for bill and da
that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it...
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host: tell us about that. caller: i'm a white man and i walk in -- i work with juveniles in juvenile hall and men in jail and prison. i can tell you that the prison population demographics racially don't even come close to matching what you see as you are walking on the street somewhere. intellectly we understand the facts we hear about the disproportionate number of people of color in prison but when you enter a prison yard and see this, it's shocking. and it's no surprise to me that our minority communities are up in arms about this. they should be. it's striking. the second point is i'd like to understand what the corollary might be between the pay for play prison industry, the prison complex and the profit motive and the spike that we've had or the sharp increase we've had in our prison pop lapings. we seem to be on a j curve and it's been the past several decade that we've had this startup of prisons as an industry as opposed to something run by our government. host: according to the wash post the federal
host: tell us about that. caller: i'm a white man and i walk in -- i work with juveniles in juvenile hall and men in jail and prison. i can tell you that the prison population demographics racially don't even come close to matching what you see as you are walking on the street somewhere. intellectly we understand the facts we hear about the disproportionate number of people of color in prison but when you enter a prison yard and see this, it's shocking. and it's no surprise to me that our...
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tell us about it? >> in an article on the profile a couple of months ago, in my office, i have a wide sofa, the truth sofa, because, so often, members will come in and tell you exactly you -- what they are thinking. when they get in there and you are looking i to eye, one-on- one, you get the real story. you get the real story while -- why they support this policy or why they do not. the point being that is what we have got to do as a party to engage people one-on-one. i think about my own particular district. when you are talking about minority outreach, my district is 54% democrat, 30 four percent republican, 12% independent. about 25% of that african- american. i carried the african-american vote each time i run. i did it by going one-on-one. i had a relationship there. a third-generation where i am from. they were not voting for some unknown republican. they were voting for wayne's son, or grandson. that made a big difference. we need to make sure we are going out and talking to people one-on-one,
tell us about it? >> in an article on the profile a couple of months ago, in my office, i have a wide sofa, the truth sofa, because, so often, members will come in and tell you exactly you -- what they are thinking. when they get in there and you are looking i to eye, one-on- one, you get the real story. you get the real story while -- why they support this policy or why they do not. the point being that is what we have got to do as a party to engage people one-on-one. i think about my...
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tell us the context. she wrote, "i have the happiness of meeting with a variety of these misleaders who are either not gifted with common sense or have a sort of mind when which i have often met with utterly incapable of comprehending anything in a plain way, whether that's a natural defect in the formation of the brain, i will leave philosophers and metta physicians to decide." >> because campaigning is not allowed, john quincy can't come out and say i would like you to vote for me as president, the candidates can't do that and you can't ask for office directly, you have to kind of use these subtle back channels. women were a good conduit for that. and so people had louisa to spread their gossip, to ask for favors. she doesn't always -- she knows that she can't trust these people. she is not naive. a lot of them are spreading false gossip or false information. they're misleading. they all have their own agendas. she is aware of the political game that is going on. she is not terribly a fan of it. >> we w
tell us the context. she wrote, "i have the happiness of meeting with a variety of these misleaders who are either not gifted with common sense or have a sort of mind when which i have often met with utterly incapable of comprehending anything in a plain way, whether that's a natural defect in the formation of the brain, i will leave philosophers and metta physicians to decide." >> because campaigning is not allowed, john quincy can't come out and say i would like you to vote...
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for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it right in the beginning. >> host: and finally, senator smith, last week on this program senator mark pryor, who's the chair of a commerce subcommittee, we asked him about whether or not the '96 telecom act needs to be updated and overhauled, and he expressed some reservations about that because it would open this can of worms, etc., etc., etc. from the nab's point of view -- >> guest: i suppose be, i never voted for a perfect law. they were always the product of compromise and trade-offs, and there's not
for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it...
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we definitely use it as a source. but you know, i think all of us are like this. we are trying to have these very traditional notions it is a new sort of tool to find out what people maybe are interested in. >> we have a more specific audience, politico focuses on these people who are absolutely in the room, making the policy. but we were more likely to also rely on a professor that could tell you about the dynamics or the overview. we wanted to get as close to the action as we could. we look at the original roll call vote. and so we put a heavy emphasis on original reporting. i think unlike some of the other panelists. our metabolism is not quite as -- it's not quite as feverish. but our goal is to do a thorough fact check. sometimes that takes a day and to be as thorough as we can. to take it back and check on them. to rely on secondhand sources. >> so this is something like walking up to someone like marco rubio come you can talk about how he is supporting them immigration reform. but it's also making other people and their party happy. i can talk to him direct
we definitely use it as a source. but you know, i think all of us are like this. we are trying to have these very traditional notions it is a new sort of tool to find out what people maybe are interested in. >> we have a more specific audience, politico focuses on these people who are absolutely in the room, making the policy. but we were more likely to also rely on a professor that could tell you about the dynamics or the overview. we wanted to get as close to the action as we could. we...
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the language we decided not to use. the transition policy and of the work i'm doing is about reconfiguring omnipresence on the ground. so it may be tricky to talk about it that we but we don't talk about the exit of the peacekeeping mission we talk about the reconfiguration of the presence. and in the same way that interest you have a significant military drawdown but the continued united states presence in the country giving a range of things. so this may be the peacekeepers to believe but for us if you're a civilian agency on the ground probably before him and we will be on the ground afterwards so it's a decent way of communicating that message. obviously you can't avoid the reality is in the communications strategy that is how we are trying to deal with it. >> would you like to comment on that issue? >> the first one was planning for departure and then in the u.s. military as i've heard what does the success like and i think one of the reasons iraq reconstruction program lasted ten years almost was that we didn't ha
the language we decided not to use. the transition policy and of the work i'm doing is about reconfiguring omnipresence on the ground. so it may be tricky to talk about it that we but we don't talk about the exit of the peacekeeping mission we talk about the reconfiguration of the presence. and in the same way that interest you have a significant military drawdown but the continued united states presence in the country giving a range of things. so this may be the peacekeepers to believe but for...
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us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of our people? our people, our warriors to expect to deploy. just over the weekend and number of difference that -- states. 2430 in each group. every time i would ask how many did -- how many times deployed, one-third to one-half of the group have already deployed. how many want to deploy in the future? every hand goes up. and is a balance we have to look at. we do need to continue to the gate -- indeed in the operational missions of our services. we have to look like the army in the air force and have missions
us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of...
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you can send us a tweet, make sure you use the #firstladies. you can also post a question or comment on our facebook page. we have a conversation already started there. or you can phone us here are our phone lines. if you live in the eastern or central time zones 202-585-3880, or out west, 202-585-3881. we'll get for your comments and questions in a minute. our guests referred to letters written to jane pierce's son. we're going to learn about that next. we're going to travel to the new hampshire historical society which holds the papers of the pierce family and see two important letters in understanding of the will the story of jane pierce. >> this letter was written by benny pierce who was 11 years old. from andover, massachusetts, where he was visiting with his cousins in june of 1852. at the time the franklin pierce was nominated for president at democratic national convention in baltimore. franklin and his mother had been in boston waiting for news of the nomination. and benny was staying with relatives in andover. benny, knowing how much
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when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able to give them an enormous story on standards and how they are applied, and how they are set. instead of just michael focusing on the initial question, which was writing about the x-ray. so tell us what you'r what you y writing about and we can help you better. and don't automatically assume that the government is evil and we are hiding stuff. because that is not the case. journalists have a code of ethics. trust but verify, but also not to violate the truth. just as welcome the government public affairs folks, believe it or not we have a code of ethics, and that code of ethics from the national
when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able...
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none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do it. in a year or two. it takes time. and one of the things we've got to have is sort after temporal sense. how long is it going to take to do these things? what are the right things to be looking at sort of year in, year out, that demonstrate progress? there's a tendency here very much to look at, for example, the fine work of this report and say, well, if you can't do it within six months it is not worth doing. you really have to have a long view. it takes time, it takes efforts. that's where we're finding in many o
none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do...
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when we look at welfare use. we typical look at the household and foreign born headed households have much higher welfare usage and the reason is that, you know, they tend to be poor and tend to lack health insurance. their children get state health insurance benefit. from talking to people i've heard that naturalize in order to use the family reunification. they can sponsor family for immigration. can you comment on that? >> that's a big reason why people take the step to become naturalized. i've been doing the work for twenty five years. i found in the late' 80s and the early '90s that was the major reason. as a u.s. citizens you can e petition for your relatives more quickly than a lawful resident. but since proposition 187 in my home state of california and the anti-immigrant sentiment more and more people have been accelerating naturalization to vote. >> i'm a journalist and have the last session going to be lightening round. you get one or two sentences each. i want do you back up away from the benefits fro
when we look at welfare use. we typical look at the household and foreign born headed households have much higher welfare usage and the reason is that, you know, they tend to be poor and tend to lack health insurance. their children get state health insurance benefit. from talking to people i've heard that naturalize in order to use the family reunification. they can sponsor family for immigration. can you comment on that? >> that's a big reason why people take the step to become...
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follow us. please remain seated -- seated until the energy secretary has left the room that we can all live together. thank you for coming today. [inaudible conversations] >> the center for strategic and international studies, hosting a panel of the upcoming g20000000 president obama's visit to sweden here on c-span2 at 830 eastern. also a national press club newsmaker discussion on the future of democracy in egypt and at 10:00, companion and work, of going online security secretary janet nepal, will give a farewell speech at the national press club. she served as a head for the permits as 2009 and is leaving to be president of the university of california. the author of captain audience. challenging everything you know about trucks and society. the book stranger wills, 1979. >> next susan crawford talks about her book captive audience, the telecom industry a monopoly power. she argues that america's economic future could be threatened by other countries that have the internet capabilities that
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and you can find lot more about us on our website, you can also find us on facebook, on twitter, and instagram. certainly one of the things we very much enjoy doing is partnering with other great organizations response -- [inaudible] >> disrupted thinkers began in 2011 in san diego. we feature chapters in nashville, austin, and toronto, and d.c. our mission is to innovate by connecting military government leaders with entrepreneur and creative thinkers to provide the tools and networks we need to bring our disruptive thought in to action. we're bringing these two organizations together today because we both share a common belief that tomorrow's leaders in a foreign policy and national secure try going to need the trait of entrepreneurship in order change their organization and agencies. >> now i would like that make two introduction. the first is my colleague to my right. kristin. she'll be live tweeting the event with the twitter account. and she'll also be using #-- the two organizations. you can use that #to live tweet yourself or later during q & a if you don't want to ask a ques
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give us an overview. at least for the moment ahead, although the poll also indicates that voters are not too happy about qaeda can it. >> that's correct. this is really the big race in 2013. this is the one that national republicans and democrats are going to look at and look for clues about the future electoral environment in 2014 elections. this is a race that is expected to be close the route. one of the few poles that has shown one candidate with the lead outside the margin of error . another poll that shows the republican a lead. but at think the main thing about this race and what people are recognizing is that these are to candid it's running up against each other and both have their flaws. a political newcomer. he did not run a very strong campaign four years ago. some questions about -- some ethical questions with them. as more and more a swing state. for an ally in this poll he does show a small need. very early in this race and i expect it to be a lot of attention on this campaign going forward
give us an overview. at least for the moment ahead, although the poll also indicates that voters are not too happy about qaeda can it. >> that's correct. this is really the big race in 2013. this is the one that national republicans and democrats are going to look at and look for clues about the future electoral environment in 2014 elections. this is a race that is expected to be close the route. one of the few poles that has shown one candidate with the lead outside the margin of error ....